RELATIVES of police torture victim Abner Louima don’t want a federal judge to throw the book at the three cops who were found guilty of conspiring to cover-up the sodomy attack.

They want the judge to smash them with the Encyclopaedia Britannica. That was the reaction from Louima’s brother Jonas, when he heard federal prosecutors want to give the three convicted cops a “small break” next week during their sentencing, in part because they would likely be abused by prisoners.

“I don’t really care if they get abused in jail – they should’ve thought about that before they did that to my brother,” said Jonas, 25.

“They didn’t give my brother a break. Why should we give them a break?”

If anyone doubts the guilt of cops Charles Schwarz, Thomas Bruder and Thomas Wiese, they should read the transcripts of court proceedings against Street Crime Unit detectives Rolando Aleman and Francisco Rosario.

Their case, the third and most grossly ignored installment in the Louima criminal phase, is by far the most significant. The two cops for the first time revealed all the back-room shenanigans and pressure to cover up the Louima crime.

Aleman, 29, was the first to collapse, on April 17. He pleaded guilty before the trial began and at one point allegedly told an investigator, “You’re not going to be with me when I have a gun pointed in my f—–g face in some alley and get labeled a rat.

“I’m a good cop.”

Or Rosario, 34, who on June 14 testified in his trial that he was under pressure to keep his mouth shut.

A jury found Rosario guilty yesterday.

What’s most disturbing about the blue wall of silence is that Rosario and Aleman were only bit players in the Louima drama – they were simply booking a prisoner when an injured and half-naked Louima was led into a jail cell.

The pressure on Schwarz, Bruder and Wiese must have magnified tenfold.

That’s why the Louima family has every right to demand that Judge Eugene Nickerson bury these cops under the jail.

“They have to give them the maximum sentence possible, as an example to other police officers – so that other police officers think twice before they commit a crime,” said Jonas, a service manager at a car dealership.

He added, “If that were me being prosecuted, I wouldn’t get a break. I would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Jonas concedes the Louima family may have considered giving these officers a break if they all would’ve come clean Aug. 9, 1997, and told investigators “Yes, Officer Justin Volpe shoved a stick up Louima’s rectum.”

Instead, they stood silent as rumors that Louima was a homosexual who fell victim to hard-core sex slimed its way into the media.

“It ate away at my heart,” Jonas said.

The Louima family thinks Schwarz, Bruder and Wiese got a break when they were acquitted of assault charges – which the family thinks it will prove in a civil trial.

“I know they did it. The day I saw him at the hospital, his face was swollen, his face was beyond recognition.”

The cops got a break, Jonas said, when they weren’t charged with attempted murder.

“They almost took my brother’s life away – he came so close to dying,” Jonas said.

The Louima cops, who took an oath, don’t deserve a break.

“They were covering stuff up for a long time before the truth finally came out,” said Jonas, who plans to meet with his family members and see if Abner will go before Nickerson and plead for the maximum sentence.

“It took 2½ years for the truth to come out, and they ask for a break?

“Our family should get a break, because we suffered longer than them,” Jonas said. “We didn’t do anything to them – they did it to us.”